Problem With Removable Drives

[Guest]

Hi All

I am having a problem with removable drives (Digital Cameras, Key disks etc.)
on my XP Pro system. This is not related with drivers, but to XP's inability to assign
correct drive letters to my removable drives.

In my system I have 3 partions on my hardrive c:, f: and g: and 2 cd drives d:, e:.
Then I have persistent network drives starting at h:, this is where my problem lies.
XP always by default assigns H as the drive letter for my removable drives (next one down from last partion). As this has already been assigned to a network drive I cannot access it in Explorer until I open the Disk managment snap in and reassign it a new drive letter.

When I used Win2K, it had no problems assigning the next available drive letter after my network dirves.

Any ideas on how to fix it so a "free" drive letter is assigned to my drives automatically will be appreciated

TIA

Spank_Mank

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Hi All

I am having a problem with removable drives (Digital Cameras, Key
disks etc.)
on my XP Pro system. This is not related with drivers, but to XP's
inability to assign
correct drive letters to my removable drives.

In my system I have 3 partions on my hardrive c:, f: and g: and 2 cd
drives d:, e:.
Then I have persistent network drives starting at h:, this is where
my problem lies.
XP always by default assigns H as the drive letter for my removable
drives (next one down from last partion). As this has already been
assigned to a network drive I cannot access it in Explorer until I
open the Disk managment snap in and reassign it a new drive letter.

When I used Win2K, it had no problems assigning the next available
drive letter after my network dirves.

Any ideas on how to fix it so a "free" drive letter is assigned to my
drives automatically will be appreciated

TIA

Spank_Mank

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a solution for this problem.

See the following article for a description of how XP assigns mapped network
drive letters, by default.

New drive or mapped network drive not available in Windows Explorer:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297694


--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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